Our ladies book group has been going strong for 8 1/2 years. Below is a list of all the books we have read so far. Reviews to come! Our plans for the next few months are tentatively as follows:
September "Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Grandin (at my house-hooray!)
October "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte (spoooooky!)
November "The Kiterunner" or "I Am Malala"
December "Write Your Own Short Story" with a Christmas theme. We always have trouble finding a "heartwarming" Christmas book so we are trying our hands this year so to speak, to warm our own hearts.
January Open
February "Battle Cry of a Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua (Chinese New Year theme!)
Book
Group Selections
2005
February “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom
March “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austin
April “The Persian Pickle Club” by Sandra Dallas
May “The Giver” by Lois Lowry
June “Winter Solstice” by Rosamunde Pilcher
July “Dancing at the Rascal Fair” by Ivan Doig
August “Kaleidoscope Season” by Sharon Downing
Jarvis
September
October “Danger in the Shadows” by Dee Henderson
November “The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Baroness Orczy
December “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens OR
“Shepherds, Why this Jubilee” by Jeffrey R. Holland
2006
January “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
February “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
March “Welcome to the Great Mysterious” by Lorna
Landvik
April “The Sunflower” by Simon Wiesenthal
May “Goose Girl” by Shannon Hale
June “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
July “ The Virginian” by Owen Wister
August “The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float” by Farley Mowat
September “The Seven Daughters of Eve” by Bryan Sykes
October “ A Town Like Alice” by Neil Shute
November
“We Are Our Mother’s Daughters” OR “Founding Mothers” by Kokie Roberts
December “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Barbara
Robinson
2007
January “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks
February “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
by Stephen Covey
March “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd
April “Blind Your Ponies” by Stanley Gordon West
May “Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton
June “Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver
July “To America” by Stephen Ambrose
August “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult
September “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne
October “Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency” by
Alexander McCall Smith
November “1776” by David McCullough
December “How Far to Bethlehem” by Nora Lofts AND “The Other Wise Man” by O Henry
2008
January “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
February “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
March Cancelled
April “Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven” by Fannie Flagg
May “The Edge” by Dick Francis
June “My Antonia” by Willa Cather
July “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield
August “Leadership and Self Deception” by The
Arbinger Institute
September “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” by Elizabeth
George Speares
October “A Cry In the Night” by Mary Higgins Clark
November “Cold Sassy Tree” by Olive Ann Burns
December “The Christmas Box” by Richard Paul Evans
2009
January “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
February “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See
March
“The Education of Little Tree” by Forrest Carter
April “Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas
May
“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
June
“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel
Pie Society” by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows
July
“Fire of the Covenant” by Gerald Lund
August “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankel
September
“The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck
October
“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand
November
“The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls
December
“A Christmas Treasury” by Louisa May Alcott
2010
January
“Tales From Shakespeare” by Charles and
May Lamb
February
“The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David
Wroblewski
March
“Bring Your Favorite Recipe Book”
April
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
May
“The Diary of Mattie Spencer” by Sandra
Dallas
June
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha
Christie
July
“Plain and Simple” by Sue Bender
August
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara
Kingsolver
September
“John Adams” by David McCullough
October
“Middlemarch” by George Elliot
November “The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands” by
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
December
“The Greatest Gift” by Phillip Doren
Stern
2011
January
“Book and Food Potluck”
February
“Don Quixote Part I” by Miguel de
Cervantes
March “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
April “Blessings” by Anna Quindlen
May “Crocodile on the Sandbank” by Elizabeth Peters
June “Tending Roses” by Lisa Wingate
July “English Creek” by Ivan Doig
August Summer Sabbatical
September “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
October “Left to Tell” by Imaculee Ilibigaza
November “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemmingway
December “The Melodeon” by Glendon Swarthout
2012
January “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
February “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin
March “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier
April
“Free to Choose” by Milton Friedman
May “At Home in Mitford” by Jan Karon
June
“Mockingbird”by Charles J. Shields
July
“The Constitution”
August
“Mercy” by Jodi Picoult
September
“Winter Garden” by Kristin Hannah
October “A Tale of Two Cities” By Charles Dickens
November “Murder by Mocha” by Cleo Coyle
December “The Mansion” by Henry Van Dyke
2013
January “Succeed” by Heidi Grant Halvorson”
February “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand
March “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
April
“Whose Names Are Unknown” by Sanora Babb
May
“Deception Point” by Dan Brown
June
“Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis
July
“The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara
August
“Leave it to Psmith” by P.G. Wodehouse
September
“The Rent Collector” by Camron Wright
October
“The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon” by Washington Irving
November
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
December
“Christmas at Fairacre” by Miss Read
2014
January
“The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint” by Brady Udall
February
“Enchantment” by Orson Scott Card
March
“Gifted Hands” by Dr. Ben Carson
April “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by
Jamie Ford
May “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre
Dumas
June “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon
July “Flags of Our Fathers” by James Bradley
August
“Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury
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